Matt Lynch writes in a recent letter to the editor that he has "trouble understanding" how Historic Tours of America (HTA), of which I am the president, "could be so upset that the Navy put the kibosh on their (our) version of the Duck Tours."

The answer is that as a company we were "inconvenienced" by the loss...

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